Virginia Baeten hopes to recover her missing patchwork pillow. It was last seen in the 1970s in a grocery store parking lot on Wisconsin Avenue, Appleton, Wisconsin. She and her husband were transporting parts for her husband’s job, and they were in a very uncomfortable truck. Virginia was using the pillow as back support. She thinks it must have fallen out of the truck when they stopped, or it is … Continue reading
Cathy Merritt is looking for a brown log cabin quilt. It was the first quilt she made. She mistakenly sold it at a garage sale or donated it in the late 1980’s in Portland, Oregon. It is king size. The ‘logs’ are done in brown and tan. The center is rust. The fabrics are old fashioned calicos. It is tied with rust colored string. Please contact Cathy through the Lost … Continue reading
Dena Crain donated two quilts to the Trust for African Rock Art (http://www.africanrockart.org). The quilts were part of a traveling exhibition of African rock art. The car they were being transported in was involved a car crash on the road between Nairobi, Kenya, and either Arusha or Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. By the time the confusion cleared, the quilts were gone. These quilts were last seen sometime in 2005 or … Continue reading
Christine Hindle is hoping to find the green embroidered quilt she made in 1968 when she was a teenager. She last saw it in 1974 when she sold it because she was stranded and in need of funds. She is hoping to buy it back from the woman’s descendents, if she can locate them. The quilt was sold in Rhode Island. Christine hopes it might still be there since many … Continue reading
Elisabeth Elmquist is hoping to recover a quilt she made for her daughter’s tenth birthday. It was last seen in June 2001 in France at the International School of Sophia Antipolis. The sampler quilt was made in 1993. One of the blocks uses her daughter’s initials, “AT.” It also features the year made and Elisabeth’s initials “EAE.” The fifteen blocks have green borders and the quilt is bordered with a … Continue reading
On October 23, 2005 Paula Golden lost a quilt she was working on. She was on the 6 PM American Airlines flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Washington National Airport. Somehow the quilt disappeared from her bag. Paula has checked with airport personel, but has not yet found the quilt. The unfinished quilt is 16″ by 20″. It features a vase filled with rocks, pebbles, and sand. She used applique and … Continue reading
On August 2 or 3, 2003 someone stole Linda Garcia’s Southwestern Quilt from the Fremont County Fair in Riverton, Wyoming. This quilt was made from a commercial pattern. It is approximately 24″ by 36″. The main colors are rust, brown, turquoise and reds. It is machine appliqued and machine quilted. Linda signed and dated the quilt directly on the backing fabric with a Pigma pen in the lower right hand … Continue reading
On September 12, 2003, F. Landau lost an unfinished, hand-appliqued table runner that she had been working on. It was last seen in Waterton Lakes, Canada or St. Mary’s in Glacier National Park, Montana. It was possibly left in the Prince of Wales Hotel or restuarant area. The original design is about 36″ by 72″. Vines and flowers wind around the center and edges using the green, gold, yellow, amber, … Continue reading
On August 18, 2003 Beth Kitts sent a Sampler Quilt Top from Ruston, Louisiana. Somehow the shipping company lost the package and could not trace it. On September 10 Beth received the good news that the package had finally arrived at its destination. The box was squashed flat and very badly damaged, but the quilt top was intact. There was no indication of where it had been or why it … Continue reading
Carol Jeanne King would like to recover a family heirloom. The Sunbonnet Sue quilt was started by her great-great-grandmother Bailor in the 1930’s for Carol’s mother. Carol’s grandmother worked on it when Carol’s mother was expecting her. Carol finished quilting it when she was expecting her own daughter in August 1966. Now Carol can’t remember if she gave it away or sold it or left it at the laundry. She … Continue reading
